[Lazarus] Option to allow fuzzy translations (Re: Fuzzy translations ignored)

[Péter Gábor]

I am working on the translations of Lazarus IDE and components.
Sometimes I need to see also fuzzy translations to check the followings:
- do they appear in the correct context
- do they fit in the space
- are the words used consistently
- etc.
I think that an option to allow displaying fuzzy translations would be
welcome for translators. This checkbox would be in good place below the
list of languages in Environment/Desktop/Language. And if it is enabled
a message box may warn the user that it's risky (program crash/bad
translations/etc.). This message would appear on the IDE startup or this
one option not to be saved to avoid unwanted effects in the future.

2014-09-06 00:28 keltezéssel, Giuliano Colla írta:
> 
> Il 05/09/2014 09:35, Reinier Olislagers ha scritto:
>> On 04/09/2014 23:34, Giuliano Colla wrote:
>>> But in that case it would be an advantage for developers (few) and a
>>> disadvantage for users (many).
>> No, it would be an advantage for the users because they don't get
>> inferior quality or incorrect translations...
>> Rather, it makes it painfully clear that the translator has not finished
>> 100% of the translation.
> A change from "Exit" to "Quit" (it happened) marks the translation
> fuzzy, and this may go unnoticed by many translators. Is it a good
> reason not to show the old translation?
> I'm afraid that users unfamiliar with Latin alphabet (such as Chinese,
> Russians, arabs, etc.) will hardly agree with your opinion.
>> Apparently not showing fuzzy translations is the standard way in other
>> open source projects. I remember a bug report that probably kicked off
>> the change referring to that (but don't know the mantis number).
> msgfmt provides the flag -f to accommodate the need to show fuzzy
> translations.
>> Regardless of the setting, fuzzy strings will have to be dealt with and
>> (as both a developer and translator) I'm happy that Laz now aligns with
>> general practice.
> On this point I fully agree with you. It would be nice if the steps
> before any release did include a quick check to the po files just to
> verify the amount of fuzzy and untranslated strings, in order to alert
> translators accordingly.
> Pochecker might be improved to provide a more user friendly quick full
> view of the status of all the translations in a folder, sort of what
> KBabel provided in the past. I'll look into it.
> 
> Giuliano
> 
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